The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.

Every country has the government it deserves.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.